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== Immigration ==
During the 1950s, there were 45,000 documented immigrants from Central America. In the 1960s, this number more than doubled to 100,000. In the decade after, it increased to 134,000. 26,000 of these immigrants were Guatemalan.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|title=Seeking Global Community in a Global City: Guatemalans and Salvadorans in Los Angeles|last1=Hamilton|first1=Nora|last2=Chinchilla|first2=Nora|publisher=Temple University Press|year=2001|location=Philadelphia}}{{pn|date=November 2022}}</ref> Following the 1950s, Guatemala had been full of unrest with military dictatorships, civil wars, and a thirty-six year long guerrilla war. Those wars produced over 200,000 deaths, as well as the displacement of nearly one million [[refugee]]s. In 1996, the Guatemalan government signed a peace accord. This ended the war; however, the war did not end for many Guatemalans who had to live alongside those who inflicted violence throughout their country.

During the [[Cold War]], many Guatemalans immigrated to the United States due to the lack of stability from [[US intervention in Latin America|U.S. intervention]]. Consequently, many Guatemalans received [[Temporary protected status|Temporary Protected Status]] during that time period. These same Guatemalans lost that status once the war ended.<ref name=":0" />

Migration from Central America had always been below 50,000. However, in 1970, the census had counted 113,913 Central American immigrants. 17,536 of those immigrants were of Guatemalan descent. This was a dramatic increase from the 5,381 count from the decade prior.<ref name=":4">{{Cite journal|last1=Foxen|first1=Patricia|last2=Rodman|first2=Debra H.|title=Guatemalans in New England: Transnational Communities through Time and Space|date=2012|jstor=24781903|journal=Practicing Anthropology|volume=34|issue=1|pages=17–21|doi=10.17730/praa.34.1.3680361120172836}}</ref> The 1970s was when the United States experienced a high increase of Guatemalans. According to the 1970 census, there were 17,356 Guatemalans. This is a stark increase considering that there were only 5,381 Guatemalans when the 1960 census was taken.<ref name=":4" /> Immigration to the United States from Guatemala truly increased in 1977 with a total of 3,599. This was an 82% increase since the year prior.<ref name=":4" /> For the most part, this was due to the lack of stability within Guatemala's agricultural economy. For many Guatemalans, the [[Economy of Guatemala|agricultural economy]] was the job market for the disadvantaged. This market was not enough to sustain Guatemalans at the time - the unemployment rate was 25% and the poverty rate was at 84%<ref name=":4" /> In the 1970s, Guatemala experienced a culmination of factors that decreased their ability to uplift themselves from poverty. The infant mortality rate between 1970–1973 in Guatemala was around 82%.<ref name=":4" /> These circumstances included an increasing unemployment rate, as well as decreasing wages and opportunities in the rural sector. In 1976, they experienced an earthquake that left many homeless. These factors combined with the general violence caused many Guatemalans to look toward internal, intraregional, and international migration throughout the 1970s and 1980s. When fleeing conflict, many Guatemalans sought refuge in [[Guatemala–Mexico relations|Mexico]]. For many, Mexico was just another transit point within their journeys. In 1982, Mexico experienced an economic crisis, which had made it difficult for many Guatemalans to sustain themselves. This helps explain the increase of Guatemalans entering the United States throughout the 1980s.<ref name=":2" /> Many indigenous Guatemalan workers in Mexico were recruited to work with companies within the United States. Many of these workers were already workers in Central American assembly plants. Therefore, the skills were transferable to plants in the United States. As a result, many moved to Los Angeles during the 1970s.<ref name=":2" /> Unemployment increased from 25% in the 1970s to over 40% in the 1980s. Rural poverty was at 84% and urban poverty was at 47%. This was difficult for many impoverished Guatemalans, because many were reliant on the [[agricultural economy]] as their source of employment.{{sfn|Jonas|Rodríguez|2015|p={{pn|date=November 2022}}}}

During the 1980s, many revolutionary/guerrilla groups merged together to become the [[Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca]] (URNG); the Guatemalan government responded with military action, which included the [[Guatemalan genocide|genocide]] of 150,000 civilians during 1981 to 1983. Ultimately, this formed a ripple effect, which led to displacement and migration to both Mexico and the United States for many Guatemalans and [[Mayas]].{{sfn|Jonas|Rodríguez|2015|p={{pn|date=November 2022}}}} Mass migration from Guatemala occurred during the 1980s; as a result, changing the relationship with the United States. During this time, Guatemala was experiencing high levels of poverty along with social and political unrest.{{sfn|Jonas|Rodríguez|2015|p={{pn|date=November 2022}}}} Guatemalans sought refuge during the 1980s due to civil war and economic devastation. However, at the time, they were not granted asylum. Despite, this female asylum-seekers have been able to receive asylum since then. [[Femicide in guatemala|Femicide]] has become more prevalent in Guatemala. In this manner, many United States courts have been granting [[Asylum in the United States|asylum]] due to the increase in femicide in Guatemala.

The [[Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986|Immigration Reform and Control Act]] (IRCA) was passed in the United States in 1986. Following IRCA, most documented Guatemalan Americans were able to receive legal admission through the petitioning of family members already in the United States. Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) disadvantaged incoming Guatemalan immigrants, because it allowed for documentation to those who entered prior to 1982; however, Guatemalan immigration largely took place after 1982.[[File:Norma Torres 118th congress.jpeg|thumb|250x250px|[[Norma Torres]], member of the [[United States House of Representatives|House of Representatives]].]]In 1997, immigration was further limited for Guatemalans through the [[Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act|Nicaraguan and Central American Relief Act]]. This act allowed Central American asylum-seekers to be documented in the United States but called for deportation for those undocumented. At the time, many of those people were Guatemalan Americans.<ref name=":0" /> Deportation of undocumented immigrants have consequences of socioeconomic mobility within Guatemala. Households in Guatemala that receive money from Guatemalans in the United States are able to pull themselves into a better economic standing. By contrast, households which lose that money experience downward mobility.{{sfn|Jonas|Rodríguez|2015|p={{pn|date=November 2022}}}}

=== Literature in the U.S. ===
According to Rodriguez, the main themes of Central American literature in the United States are: war, violence, criminality, solidarity, migration, ethnicity, and the construction of identity.<ref name="Rodriguez2012">{{cite book |doi=10.4324/9780203097199-48 |last1=Rodríguez |first1=Ana Patricia |chapter=Literatures of Central Americans in the United States |title=The Routledge Companion to Latino/A Literature |year=2012 |pages=445–453 |isbn=978-0-203-09719-9 |s2cid=246937395 }}</ref> [[Maya Chinchilla]] is a Guatemalan poet of mixed U.S., German and Guatemalan heritages. In her poem "Central Americanamerican" she "diffracts the construction of Central American identity beyond a geographic notion and along the multiple coordinates of migrations, generations, heritages, languages, ethnicities, races, sexualities, cultures, and discourses magnified in the Central American diasporas."<ref name="Rodriguez2012" /> Novels like ''The Tattooed Soldier'' by [[Héctor Tobar]] display the cultural significance of Central American identity within U.S. multiculturalism.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Interrogative Justice in Héctor Tobar's The Tattooed Soldier|last=Vázquez|first=Eric|publisher=The Johns Hopkins University Press|year=2018|pages=129–152}}</ref>